DigiTech Harmony Man Smart Guitar Harmony Pedal

by DigiTech

Product Features

• Cutting-edge pitch detection engine designed specifically for guitar delivers fast accurate shifting!
• 3-part guitar harmony; Forget about music theory and programming. Just play-it's that simple!
• Intelligent harmony voicings, fixed chromatic voicings, and detune voice settings.
• Edit, store and recall 4 memory presets.
• Pre-harmony Distortion loop

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10 x 3.5 x 8 inches ; 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B001AEH9AE
• Item model number: HarmonyMan Pedal
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,678 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
  • #13 in Musical Instruments > Instrument Accessories > Guitar & Bass Accessories > Effects > Electric Guitar Effects > Single Effects > Pitch & Octave

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Following up on the success and rave reviews of our newly released Vocalist® products, we decided to make a pedal with the same cool features but specifically designed for the guitarist. With our exclusive musIQ™ technology we were able to combine the lightning-fast natural sounding harmony generation made famous by the Vocalist pedals, and fuse it with the demands of professional guitarists everywhere.

HarmonyMan™ is the world's first guitar pedal that generates harmonies based on your chord progression. It features four different types of pitch shifting depending on which of the 42 different voices are selected. Combine up to two distinct voices in any combination to accompany the input signal: a 3rd or 5th above or below, an octave up, two octaves below, 24 semitones and 4 detune variations. Simply play the songs you know and love, and when the spotlight cues your solo, hit the harmony footswitch to get amazing multi-part guitar harmonies!

Features

• Cutting–edge pitch detection engine designed specifically for guitar delivers fast accurate shifting!
• 3–part guitar harmony; Forget about music theory and programming. Just play–it’s that simple!
• Intelligent harmony voicings, fixed chromatic voicings, and detune voice settings.
• Edit, store and recall 4 memory presets.
• Sidechain connection lets you solo while your rhythm guitarist provides the recognition source.
• Built-in guitar tuner
• Pre-harmony Distortion loop

Shifting Modes

Triad Center Shifting Mode

Create musically correct harmonies based around your favorite chordal structure whether soloing a riff in a specific key or using the sidechain input for chord recognition.

Scalic Shifting Mode

Creates musically correct harmonies with various shifting depending on the harmony key.

Fixed (chromatic) Shifting Mode

Applies fixed harmony intervals to all notes with the fixed number of semitones selected.

Detune Shifting Mode

Get a thick overall sound applying a small fixed amount of pitch shifting to the lead guitar voice ranging from 5 cents to 30 cents in both up and down directions simultaneously.

Configuration

Electric Guitar With Pre-Harmony Distortion and Stereo Amplifiers

Add distortion to your lead and harmonies.

The Side-Chain Using Two Guitars with Pre-Harmony Distortion

This configuration is used when the 2nd guitar is the source signal.

Specifications

Unit Dimensions: 9.75" x 7.9" x 3.4"
Unit Weight: 4 lbs.
Power Supply: 9VAC 1300mA PS0913B-120 Included
Inputs: 1/4" Unbalanced
Outputs: 1/4" Unbalanced
Sidechain: Ground Lift Switch

Product Description

Following up on the success and rave reviews of our newly released Vocalist® products, we decided to make a pedal with the same cool features but specifically designed for the guitarist. With our exclusive musIQ™ technology we were able to combine the lightning-fast natural sounding harmony generation made famous by the Vocalist pedals, and fuse it with the demands of professional guitarists everywhere. HarmonyMan™ is the world's first guitar pedal that generates harmonies based on your chord progression. It features four different types of pitch shifting depending on which of the 42 different voices are selected. Combine up to two distinct voices in any combination to accompany the input signal: a 3rd or 5th above or below, an octave up, two octaves below, 24 semitones and 4 detune variations. Simply play the songs you know and love, and when the spotlight cues your solo, hit the harmony footswitch to get amazing multi-part guitar harmonies! Cutting–edge pitch detection engine designed specifically for guitar delivers fast accurate shifting! 3–part guitar harmony; Forget about music theory and programming. Just play–it’s that simple! Intelligent harmony voicings, fixed chromatic voicings, and detune voice settings. Edit, store and recall 4 memory presets. Sidechain connection lets you solo while your rhythm guitarist provides the recognition source. Built-in guitar tuner Pre-harmony Distortion loop

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great tool, and piece of technology, March 26, 2009

By 

Max Jean "-MQ" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DigiTech Harmony Man Smart Guitar Harmony Pedal (Electronics)

This pedal is great. It has perfect tracking, and is a great tool just for jamming by yourself, and is even good for stage. It's ability to detect what key you are playing in, is a great feature that other similar pedals don't have, which limits the ability to move around and into different keys. This feature can be turned on/off as desired. It has a ton of great options, and is really easy to use. The octaves sound great.

I compared it to the digitech whammy, and this is basically the more expensive version, equipped with more tools for the serious musician. It is less recreational if that makes sense. I recommend this for any serious musician interested in creating such harmonies, and is looking for a specific pedal to do the job.